Where to go for information? Check out the links below.

Don't forget to evaluate the resources you find against our 5 criteria!


Need a book? Search the KHS OPAC by author, title, subject, or keyword.

Databases

ABC-Clio Databases



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Gale Virtual Reference Library
  • Arts and Humanities through the Eras
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography
  • Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
  • History Behind the Headline: The Origins of World Conflict
  • The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

Local Sites

Hawaii State Public Library System
Honolulu Star-Advertiser

‍Search Engines

Boolify (graphical boolean search tool that shows results as you select key words)
Google (general search)
Browsys (search multiple search services and online content providers)
Duck Duck Go (Looks like Google but with less ad spam. Clean simple search engine)
Internet Archive (digital library of internet sites)
Noodle Tools (directs you to search engines basd on your needs)
Sort Fix (search engine with graphic interface to narrow your results by focusing on keyword selection)
Yahoo! (general search)


Academic Search
Google Scholar
Informine (scholarly search engine)
Scirus (science search engine)


‍News- Current Events

CNN
Goggle News Timeline
Internet Public Library - IPL2 (links to periodicals by regions)
Newseum - Today's Front Pages
Time Magazine Archive

‍Directories

Best of the Web
Open Directory
Yahoo! Directory

‍Images

Google Images
GRIN(Great images in NASA)
Metropolitan Museum of Art (Please read for copyright info)
Picture Collection from the New York Public Library
Picdrome (Public domain pictures)

‍Other

Access Excellence (Resource Center from the National Health Museum)
American Memory (from the Library of Congress)
DocJax (searches for documents and e-books)
Mashpedia (dynamic encyclopedia)
NARA (National Archives and Records Administration)
National Library of Medicine: Images from the History of Medicine
NOAA(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
Surchur (Hot topics on the social web --blogs, twitter, images, videos, etc.)
Webopedia (encyclopedia resource to search techno terminology and computer definitions)
Wolfram/Alpha (engine for computing answers and getting knowledge)